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Over the past century,
global warming has caused the
average
Degree
sea
Patient
level to rise by 10 -
25 cm, and another half-metre increase is expected by the end of the 21st
century.
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The
mean
Degree
levels
of the world's
seas
Patient
have been rising slowly over the past 100
years at a rate of 1.5 cm each decade.
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The
level
of the
sea
Patient
at the
shoreline
Location
is determined by many factors in the global
environment that operate on a great range of time-scales, from hours (tidal) to
millions of years (ocean basin changes due to tectonics and
sedimentation).
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Sea
Patient
level rise is an
important output of climate, glacier and ice sheet models, but it differs from other
climate system model outputs in that it is not involved in any feedbacks.
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If greenhouse gas concentrations were stabilised (even
at present levels),
sea
Patient
level would
nonetheless continue to rise for hundreds of years.
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In many coastal areas, mangrove forests and tidal
marshes may respond too slowly to the effects of a rapid rise in
sea
Patient
level to
survive.
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The
least
expected
Descriptor
sea
Patient
level rise due to
thermal expansion is in the Arctic Ocean.
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Sea
Patient
level rise and
changes in other climatic factors may affect a range of freshwater wetlands in
low-lying regions.
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Global
average
Degree
sea
Patient
level has risen and
ocean heat content has increased.
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Global
mean
Degree
sea
Patient
level rise during the
20th century is in the range of 1 to 2 mm/year.
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An increase in
sea
Patient
level will exacerbate
the current severe problems of tectonically and anthropogenically induced land
subsidence in delta areas.
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A one metre rise in
sea
Patient
level would put more
than 15 000 hectares of residential and industrial properties and 4 600 hectares of
highly productive farmland at risk, and would contaminate much of the regions ground
water with salt intrusion.
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Increases in
sea
Patient
level, and the
frequency and magnitude of storms, storm surges and waves would lead to an enhanced
frequency of coastal flooding.
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